July same as June but warmer

Fota Wildlife Park Cork

July will be very wet at times just like June in Ireland but will possibly be that bit warmer with temperatures of 19 to 21c on a lot of occasions. Rainfall will again be heavy and though there will be warm spells, firstly at the start of the month, though the cool and unsettled theme will always continue.


Expect a monthly average of 14.1c


Expect Rainfall of 130%


Expect Sunshine around normal

Update on June Weather

It will remain unsettled with rain or showers at times all the way up until the end of June with no real sign of any warmer weather in the offing. June is on track to be the wettest in over 50 years in parts of Munster and Leinster.

Flaming Thundery June

Thundery Showers for June 

After the warm end to May, June will begin on a warm note too but this will be a finely balanced act as High Pressure and Lows battle to see who will reside on our shores.


 A slack airflow could result in some very interesting thunderstorms and rainfall totals for the month could be very high even if there is going to be a lot of warm sunshine too. 


Toward mid-month it looks as if cooler fresher conditions will become established until the end of June but overall it will be a warmer month than normal for Ireland.

May will be Cool and Unsettled

Unsettled outlook for May

UPDATE: The weather looks set to warm up May 21st to the end of the month with some sunshine and only showery rain in the West. Temperatures of 18 to 24c by the end of the month are possible after 20 days of freezing cold weather for Ireland.


It not looking great for May this year either with a lot of cool and unsettled weather on the way for Ireland for much of the month. Perhaps only at the end will we see anything resembling Summer-like weather. Temperatures will be disappointing too and will be in the mid-teens at best, possibly a little higher towards the end of the month.


As regards rainfall perhaps the East is going to start off with the high rainfall amounts but after the first few days all parts will get some rain from time to time and later on the North and West will get their fair share too. The weather has been a lot drier in the North and West of Ireland in recent weeks than it was during the Winter but the temperatures are 2c below what they should be at for the time of year.


Sunshine for May will start off above normal too but will probably fall off as the month goes on and low pressures visit our shores once more. Will it be as windy as the tree burning May of 2011, well it does not look   like wind will be a major issue this year so that's perhaps the one good thing.


Not a very cheerful pictures folks so perhaps if you are booking a holiday to Ireland this Summer I would suggest maybe giving June a look instead.

April will be Cool and Showery

Just like any ordinary April it will be quite cool and showery for the month in 2012. Some dry days can be expected too especially in the South and East but with a Northerly wind source a lot of the time the temperatures will not respond very well to any sunshine. This could possibly be the first Month of 2012 that will have a mean temperature below Normal after 3 mild months in a row. A far cry from 22c in March.

Sunshine and Showers for April

For the Easter Weekend the weather wont start off too bad, just cloudy and dry with some light rain in the North and temperatures of 10 to 13c but as the weekend goes on the weather gets worse and by the end of the Easter Im afraid it will be quite wet. 


Currently there has been just 42mm of rain in Sligo since the start of April, it is very possible that be the end of next week that this figure will be above 50 or 60mm. The weather will be quite cool too especially in the first half of April resulting in the odd wintry outbreak and some snow over the high hills.

Showers will be caused at times by the convection of the heat of the sun during the day on cold land surfaces resulting in some thundery showers too and some areas could see a lot more in the way of rain than others. Around the middle of April it looks like it will get stormy for a time before a return to sunshine and blustery showers. At the end of the month then it looks like High Pressure will try and push in but there will still be some isolated showers at times.

Rest of March Dry

March will see little or no rain for the remainder of the month as High Pressure takes hold over Ireland. With temperatures rising too the water levels will be quite low. Temperatures are expected to get up to 18c in the West of Ireland while the East will be a cooler 12 or 13c due to an onshore breeze. Further into the month High pressure still remains dominant but the temperatures will drop back to between 9 and 13c.